Struggle in writing the borrowed words in Korean

Аннотация

Nowadays, word exchange is the common process which is happening as a result of globalization. Like other languages, in Korean there is observed word borrowing from other languages, especially from English. Since, Korean written format differ from other languages it is problematic to write the borrowed words in Korean, so, there is created new form of Koreanized English or ―Konglish‖. Moreover, there is created ―Loan Language Writing Method‖ to write the words which are borrowed from other languages. Key words: word exchange, borrowing, Koreanized English, Konglish, Loan Language Writing Method In the current age of global information exchange, the process of adopting words from one language to another is very common. In most cases the donor language (i.e., the language in which the words are most learned) is English. Like other languages, the Korean vocabulary is rich in words that come from a foreign language. In Korean this process is considered seriously as formed another language which is originated from English based Korean words or ‗Konglish‘. Moreover, the list of Konglish words is enhancing very rapidly and they are commonly used in everyday communication. Thus, foreigners who are learning Korean struggle this process as they learned to pronounce the English words based on the English but not Konglish, and the most challenging is the written form of this English based Korean words. The aim of this article is to observe the difficulties in writing borrowed words from other languages into Korean and to introduce with ―Loan Language Writing Method‖. First, it refers to various methods of writing foreign words, but in this document, it refers to the foreign language notation method that was established by the National Institute of the Korean Language and promulgated as Notification No. 85-11 of the Ministry of Education in 1986 and applied so far. The National Institute of the Korean Language (NIK) holds the 'Practical Sub-Committee for Foreign Language Review' on a weekly basis and announces newly approved foreign languages from Wednesday to Thursday. This is also reflected in the foreign language notation DB of the National Institute of the Korean Language [1]. There are many places where the state takes the initiative in implementing a language policy regarding the standardization of the national language, but there is generally no case in the Romanization culture where the state-led regulations are set separately for the writing of a foreign language. This is because the Roman alphabet is the world-class universal script, so most foreign words are known as Roman characters. However, it exists in languages other than Roman characters, including Korea, Japan, China [2], and Thailand. A blogger at Igloos talked about the confusion that occurs with the transcription of foreign words and expressed it as 'the only bad luck in the world to use Hangeul'. Let's say that Korean uses Roman characters. In the first place, there would have been no need to worry about '맑스', '막스' or '마르크스'. 143 There would have just written it as ―Marx‖ [3]. There is no such thing as a foreign language notation, and the Korean Language Institute may have specified that the Romanization is sometimes confusing. Although many people do not even know the existence of foreign language notation, the foreign language notation is also a part of Korean spelling [4]. Therefore, if it is not written according to the foreign language notation, it will be incorrect depending on the spelling. The National Institute of the Korean Language answered that the foreign language notation method is 'not compulsory, but must be observed', like other regulations, such as Hangeul orthography and standard language regulations. This is the most basic language regulation that people who often translate foreign words into Hangeul (translators, interpreters, scholars, etc.) need to know and it is also a notation principle to be followed. For reference, even in North Korea, there are separate regulations for writing in Korean foreign and borrowed words from other languages. History of writing English words in Korean. Broadly speaking, from the time of the creation of Hangeul, there has already been a discussion about transferring a foreign language to Hangeul. Dongguk Jeongun (동국정운), published in 1448 for the purpose of correcting the confusion of Korean Chinese characters, is a type of foreign language notation by today's standards. In the books of the enlightenment period such as Yu Gil-jun's (유길준) ―Seoyu Gyeonmun(서유견문), there is a discussion about writing foreign words in Korean, and in the Annals of King Gojong (고종실록), there is a record that the Ministry of Military Affairs and Security raised an agenda to ‗translate all European texts and write them down in Korean‘. The direct origin of today's 'foreign language notation' is the ―Hangeul Orthotics Unification Plan‖ (한글 마춤법 통일안) presented by the Korean Language Society in 1933. In Chapter 6 of this princip